“No Reboot Required” over and over and over… Microsoft Defender definitions

[notnAP]

I’ve seen this in the past as well, on one or two systems, and do not remember how it was resolved.
A recent slew of Update Tuesday patches is yielding the same on about a dozen systems… After installing, and if needed rebooting, further download/install checks show an update downloading, and installing… and then showing “no reboot required.Overall installation result: succeeded.” If I check again, the same result shows again. And again. And again…
Looking on the system, looking at the Windows updates screen:
– it shows last checked some time ago, not now as I trigger batchpatch to cause a check
– “check for updates” manual check yields a flash of a glimpse showing the system downloading and stalling a Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus – KB2267602. The def I’m seeing is 1.393.674.0. The speed at which it installs the update implies it is not actually installing it. Def updates are fast, but not that fast.
– View UPdate history shows that definition update being applied over and over, each time I manually trigger it on the system (though not for the times batchpatch triggered it)

[notnAP]

Systems affected include Windows 10 Pro, 2019 Server, 2016 Server
I’ve run the troubleshooter for windows update to no success.

[doug]

You appear to be describing an observation with the behavior of Windows Update that you’re encountering that doesn’t have anything to do with BatchPatch. If they were my systems, I would probably do nothing. My guess is the “issue” will disappear on its own. If you really want to “fix” it then you could try removing/renaming the SoftwareDistribution folder or maybe just the SoftwareDistribution\Download folder as a reset for the Windows Update components. Google for instructions on that, and perform those steps at your own risk.

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